Joy Ride. Rated R for exuberant sexuality, bilingual foul language, brief nudity and liberal use of drugs and booze. Running time: 1 hour 35 minutes. In theaters. Joy Ride. NYT Critic’s Pick.

Joy Ride may be reworking a formula, but it does so with disarming energy and verve, plus a level of savvy about Asian culture that we still rarely see in Hollywood movies.

“Joy Ride” arrives courtesy of Seth Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures, with Adele Lim (co-writer of “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Raya and the Last Dragon”) making her feature directorial debut.

Joy Ride follows Audrey (Ashley Park), a lawyer living in Seattle, as she and her free-spirited childhood bestie Lolo (Sherry Cola) make their way across the Pacific Ocean to China to close a ...

Much ink has been spilled about the return of the raunchy comedy: The summer promised a hearty dose of R-rated, laugh-like-it's-2005 fun, starting with Jennifer Lawrence's "No Hard Feelings," then ...

Joy Ride follows four Asian-American friends on a trip to China, where grown adoptee Audrey (Ashley Park) is on a "grand adventure to find [her] birth mother." At her side is her childhood bestie ...

Yes, “Joy Ride” is a breezy, delightful movie with an impressive joke density (thanks to a screenplay by Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao); yes, it’s about friendship; yes, it aces ...

Review: ‘Joy Ride’ is a glorious, raunchy, gross-out comedy The plot — outlandish and sometimes contrived as it is — offers plenty of room for comic possibility ...

“Joy Ride” turns a bit sentimental when Audrey is persuaded to seek her birth mother. Hsu’s Kat is a semi-successful actress in Beijing about to marry a conservative Chinese actor.

The “Let’s do another ‘Bridesmaids’” energy is strong in “Joy Ride,” a road-trip comedy that peaks early and feels guilty of trying too hard thereafter. Built around a predominantly ...

The impressive thing about “Joy Ride,” a comedy that more than earns its R rating, is that there are similar moments for each of the superb quartet of actors that make this film buzz along.

“Joy Ride” also includes Park’s first sex scene. “I come from a dance background and it really is like choreography and we had an intimacy coordinator,” Park said.